DIY used to be an awesome punk rock ethos, but somehow it took a wrong turn and became all about cheap ladies making tacky shit for their wedding. One bride-to-be exhausted by the deluge of twee, impractical DIY wedding bullshit on the internet lives here. Haters welcome.Tumblr (3.0; @poutine)http://poutine.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhz23f0qe1qz836xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>If you really have nothing better to do than cut out hundreds of paper fans by hand, you may want to look for a hobby, not a husband.</p>http://poutine.tumblr.com/post/17717436999http://poutine.tumblr.com/post/17717436999Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:54:03 -0500<a href="http://www.thebrokeassbride.com/2012/02/real-wedding-vanessa-and-brians-warehouse-bar-and-food-truck-wedding-guest-starring-klingons-and-harry-potter/">The DIY budget wedding that really isn't all that budget</a>: <p>It’s exhausting butting up against the never ending pissing contest of internet DIY brides who love to tell you just how little they spent. From the lady who catered a dinner for 300 people herself to the woman who found a $5000 wedding dress under a pile of rugs at Macys and only paid $.50 for it, the woman who haggled a six course catered dinner down to $2/head. These people will fight you over a nickel and they will make sure the whole internet knows just how little they paid for their wedding (and how crappy and extravagant yours is).</p> <p>Which brings me to my first rant: don’t lie about how much your wedding costs. In magazines and the internet, there seems to be this romanticized notion of the budget-saavy DIY wedding where every thoughtful minute detail was hand done by the bride for next to nothing. Rarely is there ever a budget breakdown provided (sure that looks nice and you did it yourself but WHAT DID IT COST?) and if there is, there tends to be a lot of dishonesty about what people actually paid.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thebrokeassbride.com/2012/02/real-wedding-vanessa-and-brians-warehouse-bar-and-food-truck-wedding-guest-starring-klingons-and-harry-potter/#comments" title="case in point">Case in point</a>, a $6000 wedding where the photographer, dress, cake, candy bar, jewelry, groom’s attire, hair, makeup and DJ were provided for free. This is not a $6000 wedding, this is a $10000+ wedding that other people just happened to pay for/put in the grunt labor.</p> <p>Not that it’s bad to get help from friends and loved ones, you just might need to take off your DIY Bride armor because sorry…all of the things above cost money. It might not be out of your pocket, but it doesn’t mean cash didn’t get spent to make your wedding happen.</p>http://poutine.tumblr.com/post/17716685687http://poutine.tumblr.com/post/17716685687Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:31:00 -0500